Update February 3rd: As per today's announcement, the GetDeb and PlayDeb repositories are operational again. This does not mean however that GetDeb and PlayDeb will continue as before. The maintainer shares his intention to do an online survey, and reduce the number of packages that will be available for Ubuntu 13.04 in the GetDeb and PlayDeb repositories to a manageable number. The most popular packages he is planning to integrate into the Ubuntu repositories directly, forgoing the need to add the GetDeb and PlayDeb repositories to your system. It is unclear to me what has brought about this change, as just over two weeks ago the clearly worded "I decided to discontinue GetDeb and PlayDeb" announcement left little doubt. But, good news for those that enjoy using GetDeb and PlayDeb!

Update Jnauary 19th: it was shared yesterday that both of these software portals have been discontinued permanently. Read more on the global announcement: viewtopic.php?f=143&t=123258.

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/precise-getdeb/Release.gpg Unable to connect to archive.getdeb.net:http:

This is caused by the above websites being down.

You can either disable the GetDeb and PlayDeb repositories till these websites are up again or you can switch to a mirror. The latter is detailed in SurfaceUnits' post here: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=118809&p=656166#p656112 (thanks zerozero for the link).

If anybody has news as to what is up with these websites, kindly share here.

darl653, that is a different problem (look at the error, there is no "getdeb" in there anywhere). The Linux Mint repository is having problems since yesterday, and that is what this error is. The team is working on fixing that.

Thanks, Vincent. I did try to find the topic, google, and what-not before I started a new thread. I promise! I guess I figured it would be under "announcements" or something. Not much is turning up in the google world about broken ubuntu repos, btw. One of those situations where "if you know enough to be able to google it, you don't need to google it" I suppose.

After the server crash where also the GetDeb and PlayDeb database was lost and given the fact that GetDeb and PlayDeb now have too many packages to be handled as a one-man-project I decided to discontinue GetDeb and PlayDeb.In the last years I have spent so many hours in the project that now it is just too much for me to maintain beside my usual job.

It is currently 84GiB in size so please only download it if you really want all the packages. If you just want some simply use a mirror.

Let me also thank everybody of you for the trust you had in GetDeb and PlayDeb as an unofficial repository. I think GetDeb and PlayDeb were one of the greatest unofficial repositories for Ubuntu packages.I think to spend some time to bring some of the packages in the official repository.

Thank you and bye!--Thats all Folks. GetDeb & PlayDeb are dead for now.